[ros-users] Does cturtle not have everything boxturtle does?

[Jack O'Quin]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:49 AM, garratt <garrattgallagher at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get the bumblebee2 driver working, and I noticed that
> cturtle doesn't have all the packages that boxturtle did:
>> svn list
> https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/branches/trunk_boxturtle/stacks/camera_drivers_experimental
>        CMakeLists.txt
>        Makefile
>        camera1394/
>        camera_info_manager/
>        libdc1394v2/
>        rosdep.yaml
>        stack.xml
>        swissranger_camera/
>
>> svn list
> https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/branches/trunk_cturtle/stacks/camera_drivers_experimental
>        CMakeLists.txt
>        Makefile
>        rosdep.yaml
>        stack.xml
>        swissranger_camera/
>
>
> Now, camera_info_manager moved to the normal camera_drivers directory,
> but I can't find libdc1394v2 anywhere in cturtle.  Did the libdc1394v2
> driver move somewhere I have not looked, did it get rolled into
> something else, or do I have to check out boxturtle_trunk to be able to
> access the full set of packages?

The libdc1394v2 package was mostly only needed on Ubuntu Hardy, which
had an old libdc1394 version 1 package. C-turtle no longer supports
Hardy, which is no loss because it did not work very well for IEEE
1394 digital cameras anyway. (At least that was my experience.)

So, libdc1394v2 is relegated to end-of-life status as an experimental
package for Box Turtle only. There is no need for a C-turtle version,
which now resolves that library via rosdep. Libdc1394v2 will probably
end up in the graveyard some day when Box Turtle is no longer
supported.

For C-Turtle, the <depend package="libdc1394v2"/> becomes a <rosdep
name="libdc1394-dev"/>.

We should update the wiki page for libdc1394v2 to provide more of this
information. I just noticed that page is no longer linked to
camera_drivers_experiemental, so it might be somewhat hard to locate.
-- 
 joq